Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-06

have to endure them, how many happy
homes there might be.
Back from Heaven.
There is one young lady, Miss Della
Street, or Giles county, says the The
Fayetteville (Tenn.) Observer, who claims
to have spread her white wings and
sailed over the sea" to the celestial city
last March. The fact has not until the
present time been in print, and would
probably never have been publish ed had
she remained in that lethargic country.
There have been at different times per-
sons who hsve made similar claiEas but
the public instead of listening to them
with crsdulity, looked upon the claim
ants rather with cOmmicseration, and re-
garded the fervid accounts of what they
saw as the imaginings of diseased mind
or perchance the product of a disOrdered
liver.
Miss Street is what is known as a
country girl" and has not enjoyed the
educational facilities of large cities, but
she Is lively and vivacious, and in point
of intelligence is the equal of those raised
under the same circumstances; but it is
not reasonable to think a person of such
limited advantages lceuld unassisted de-
scribe anything in as glowing language
as she does.
Her description of the heavenly Jeru-
salem, which is vivid, is reduced to writ
ing, and, is offered in girlhoed's diff
dence and youthful innocence. It is
clothed in the most elegant and chaste
language, and describes country more
glorious than any upon which the feet of
fancy have ever trod, and bears the i'm
press Of superior mind. There are
condolences connected with this case
that challenge attention and show there
was power greater than the finite in
volved.
About the 1st of February Of the cur
rent year Miss Street informed her par
ents that on the 9th of March following
at O'Clock in the afternoon, she would
be taken violently i'll; that she would
grow worse until the following day at
9 o'clock p. M, a. which time she would
die and remain in o state of death for
twenty-five minutes, and that during the
period of suspended animation she you'd
visit that "house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens" She asked her
father MOTTO send for doctors, as human
instrumentality could not prevent her
journey to paradise and also told him
not to be alarmed; declaring, with i'm
plicit confidence, that after enduring the
sting of death for twenty-five minutes
her mortal and immortal natures would
reunite and she would again become a
living soul.
Of course, the parents were uneasy
about the idol Of their Preside and began
to think that her reason was abdicating
its throne. On the arrival of the day on
which she announced she would be taken
i'll they evinced great solicitude, inquir-
ing hourly as to her condition. She ans
swered cheerily, and continued to ad-
monish them not to be alarmed. The
hands of the clock toiled around, until
was finally reached, and to the girls par
ents they never seemed to move SO rapid
ly. While the time piece was upon the
stroke Of the hour, the young lady was
Frustrated with sickness and violent
pains racked her body. Despite her en-
treaties her father sent for skilled physi-
clans, who vainly administered their po-
tent remedies; and at 8 o'clock On the
28th they pronounced life extinct The
sickness and death occurred as she had
predicted and in time 80 did the resusci-
tatlOn. The father remembered the dec
laration that she would return to life,
and looked at the clock, and 10! the pen
dulum had ceased to vibrate, and the old
time piece, that had for years faithful Y
toiled off the hours had stopped while up
on the stroke of g.! When the girl re-
turned to consciousness the clock started
of its own accord, finished striking the
hour, and has run since without Interrupt
ton. By reference to the watch of one
of the doctors it was found that she had
been insensible, shall Wa say dead, for
25 minutes.
After the return of animation her
tongue was paralyzed and she indicated
by signs that writing paper was wanted,
which was provided, and she wrote letters
which she Gays we're dictated by Christ
and the description previously referred
to. The whole covers nineteen pages OF
foolscap paper. She says she is con-.
missiOnod to read her manuscript where
ever she goes.
While in the home of the blest she was
asked by woman to write. after return
ing to earth, to her great-granddaughte
Mrs. Annie B. Shelton, of Kinterbish,
Sumter County, Ala, and tell , her how
| anxiously her great-granddame awaited
her coming.
Our informant is not positive as to
the correctness of these names, but ne
| thinks that of the old lady was Mrs. Annie
Belmont who said she had been dead 95
years. By writing to the address the
girl gave it was learned that woman of
that name had died in that place in 1872,
and that she had a great-granedaught liter
living there.
Miss Street says she will be told in 1889
of the date of her death.
st was in Sabine county, Tex, a few
years before the late war. Judge R
was holding court on the second floor Of
2 building. On the first floor gambling
bank was in full blast, and the players
annoyed the court very much by their
wrangling After several Intellectual at